farmacia

/faɾˈmaθja/ · B2 · noun · f

drugstore

💊 farmacia = pharmacy; both come from Greek pharmakon, meaning drug or remedy

Spanish spells the Greek ph as f, the way it does in foto and filosofía. So pharmacy becomes farmacia. The stress falls on -MA-: far-MA-cia. In Spain the ci sounds like the th in think.

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